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I've made this many times, and have frozen it also when making big batches. All I can say is, its wonderful. I generally use whole milk and ground celery seed in mine, just because that is what I have on hand all the time, without any notable difference in flavor.

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This soup is fantastic! The only change I made was to use celery seed and garlic salt instead of celery salt and garlic powder because that is what I had. Best tomato soup I ever had. It took longer to prep because I used smallish tomatoes.

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For those of you out there who are like me reading this recipe and thinking to yourself "Oh, Ill just use canned crushed tomato/pureed tomato because that's all I have on hand" DONT DO IT! Just go buy the fresh tomatoes! And while you're at it go pick up a pint of heavy cream. The roux with milk was a disaster every time I re-made it and came out chunky in my soup (ew). Looks aside, the flavor was halfway decent. Thick and slightly chunky tomato soup spiced up with chilli powder and a couple dashes of Franks Red Hot sauce in addition to the above seasonings. Made an OK bowl of tomato soup to be paired with my grilled cheese sandwich for tonight's dinner. Any remaining soup will be tossed.

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I made this last night after sitting in the freezing rain at my son's baseball game. Since it was on a whim, I only had canned plum tomatoes. I used two-28 oz. cans and otherwise followed the recipe closely (only subbing celery seed for salt and fresh basil for dried). SO much better than canned soup! I made some parmesan crisps to go along with this. Looking forward to making this soup with fresh tomatoes.

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We’ve never been raging fans of tomato soup but read another reviewer saying she had never been a tomato soup fan either until making this. And then there were the rave reviews and overwhelming number of 5 star ‘loved it’ ratings. We generously give this recipe a 2* rating. Of the four people served this soup, only one finished their small bowl. All agreed of having had better homemade tomato soup. No one had any interest in having more the next day.